Give Me Your Love for Christmas | 
 enlarge | Artist: Johnny Mathis
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 9923
UPC: 074640992322
EAN: 0074640992322
Release Date: July 20, 1989
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| Tracks:
| • | Jingle Bell Rock - Johnny Mathis, Beal, Joe | | • | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Johnny Mathis, Martin, Hugh | | • | My Favorite Things - Johnny Mathis, Hammerstein, Oscar | | • | Give Me Your Love for Christmas - Johnny Mathis, Gold, Jack [1] | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Johnny Mathis, Coots, J. Fred | | • | What Are You Doing New Year's Eve - Johnny Mathis, Loesser, Frank | | • | Do You Hear What I Hear? - Johnny Mathis, Regney, Noel | | • | Calypso Noel - Johnny Mathis, Krunnfusz, G. | | • | The Little Drummer Boy - Johnny Mathis, Davis, Katherine | | • | Christmas Day - Johnny Mathis, Bacharach, Burt | | • | The Lord's Prayer - Johnny Mathis, Malotte, Albert Hay |
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The Third Great Christmas Album From Johnny Mathis June 4, 2008
rodney wiltin (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
JOHNNY MATHIS continues to shine with this, his third christmas album. From 1969 and arranged and conducted by ERNIE FREEMAN, GIVE ME YOUR LOVE FOR CHRISTMAS is another example of great 'crooner' christmas music.
GIVE ME YOUR LOVE FOR CHRISTMAS is not as powerful as his 1958 christmas album, MERRY CHRISTMAS, or even his 1963 lp, THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS (released on cd as CHRISTMAS WITH JOHNNY MATHIS) asit seems to lack that 'grabbing you' attention the other two had with their powerful styles, but this 1969 album still has a decent amount of old seasonal filled atmosphere to give it 5 stars and a high recommendation by me.
JINGLE BELL ROCK starts off with a very 'big band' inspired version that is loud and very 'happy' filled. A perfect way to get the listener in a quick christmas mood. Also, my favorite song on the album.
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS is a deeper, softer, and slower but nice paced version of the tune. Again, continues with a wonderful christmas mood setter jsut as JINGLE BELL ROCK did.
MY FAVORITE THINGS continues with a nice christmas sound as does a slower than normal but very lush version of SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN.
The song, CHRISTMAS DAY, which while isn't as powerful as JACK JONES definitive version from 1969, MR. MATHIS still does a great and powerful version which does justice to the song. This may be the most powerful song on the album.
All in all, this a another JOHNNY MATHIS christmas 'crooner' recording that I would recommend with his other two christmas albums I mentioned earlier in this review. It really is beautiful and despite being recorded in 1969, it sounds as if it was recorded in the early 1960's and so it keeps that traditional old 'crooner' christmas sound which is always a great thing.
Johnny Mathis is what Christmas "sounds" like at our house! :) October 30, 2007
Cheree Ann Bailey (Mtns of So. Calif.)
My parents used to play this record back in the 70's at Christmas-time each year and it's been a family favorite ever since! We still have the original LP in storage for safe-keeping, and I bought this CD when my cassette finally gave out! LOL Johnny Mathis is one of those timeless Sounds of Christmas that you just can't do without, so do yourself a favor - if you've never heard it, buy it! If you have heard it and want to take a trip down memory lane or share his sultry voice with the younger generation in your family, buy it! Enjoy... :)
The third in the great Mathis Xmas collection: also a reference March 19, 2006
Carlos from Rio (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Christmas Music is part of the American Way of Life. Year after year, American people get full of joy and the pleasure of listening to Christmas Music becomes a must.Also artists from many different styles and their labels are very conscious about it. It is rare to find an artist from the traditional pop scene who has not recorded at least one Christmas Album.
Unfortunately, this Christmas tradition in American music scene is fading away among young artists though sales keep hot in the season. This proves traditional pop artists have got a market niche which maintains year after year even selling the very same album that has been recorded many decades ago.
Repertoire is basically the same and this is another peculiar facet of Christmas Music. This is an indicator of the traditional `American way of buying music'.
It is commonplace in the USA that many different traditional pop artists record the same hit song in a season. For instance, I remember that `The Shadow of Your Smile' has been recorded by Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, and even Astrud Gilberto, besides its sensational OST by Johnny Mandel. This shows Americans like to listen to that same song or repertoire as recorded specifically by their favorite artists.
It is different than the music industry and customers in Brazil, for instance. If an artist records the same songs as other one does, he is minorly categorized as a `cover artist'. This is a bad category which labels the artist a minor artist, lacking creativeness as for Brazilian market parameters.
It is very interesting, anyway, to listen to the same repertoire as recorded by so many different artists from so many different times under so many different arrangement concepts. Comparison arises inevitably. Somehow, a delicious comparison. What's the best `Jingle Bells' from Johnny Mathis to Diana Krall? Who's recorded the most creative `Silent Night' - Wynton Marsalis or Nat King Cole? There is a killer `Jingle Bells' recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra under arrangement by Michel Legrand and with Jean Pierre Rampal on flute. Ooooh God!
Year after year, those albums are made available by continuous reissuing or not. Some even keep in the label's catalog on and on even out the Christmas season.
This is the case for this `Give Me Your Love for Christmas' recorded by one the most important stylists of American song and arranged by the great Ernie Freeman. Recorded nearly 30 years apart from the Mathis' longtime hit 'Merry Christmas' album, this new effort from 1989 still shows the great voice which is a treasure of the Great American Songbook.
Some uncommon and some common Xmas songs make up the program. Never mind. Mathis' style imparts each song a particular touch, highly inspired, emotionally crafted, technically perfect.
This album consists more of uncommon Christmas songs, considering it is his third album on the theme. Here you'll find Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'My Favorite Things' from 'The Sound of Music' and Burt Bacharach's 'Christmas Day' from 'Promises, Promises'. Also a delicious 'Jingle Bell Rock', which could be taken as an atypical item in Mathis' regular material.
A beautiful Christmas album by Johnny Mathis. Someone said his is the voice of Christmas. This third album in his Xmas series confirms it. I'm willing to agree.
The Best ! December 22, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I owned this album as an 8 Track many years ago and have been looking to replace what I felt was one of my best Christmas albums. I feel so lucky to find it again. There is not one song on this album that is not worth hearing.
This CD is a steal!! December 13, 2000
Jennifer Stovall (Raleigh, NC USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am sorry that only a few of the songs on this CD can be previewed. Trust me when I say that this is a wonderful, heartfelt album. The ones you don't get to preview are the best. "The Lord's Prayer", will bring you chills. No one can ever duplicate Johnny's talent with THIS song. "Calypso Noel", such an upbeat, fast tempoed, get you in that Christmas Spirit, song. "Do You Hear What I Hear" I can't even begin to describe it!! Don't pass up this chance to own one of the best Christmas CD's out there! Hopefully it will be the beginning of a new Christmas tradition in your home, like it has in ours for over 30 years. Merry Christmas! Sit back, relax and enjoy.
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